Non-swappable refers to the state of the AS, guaranteed to be swapped in.
Not taking a pagefault requires that you pagefix the page. Why would you do 
this?

Kees.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Joseph Reichman
> Sent: 24 May, 2017 15:19
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Difference between Transwap and Dontswap
> 
> While in Xmem I didn't want to take a page fault
> 
> I had scheduled a SRB in another AS and was referencing storage in the
> SRB in the AS that invoked the IEAMSCHED
> 
> 
> 
> > On May 24, 2017, at 9:14 AM, John McKown
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Joseph Reichman
> <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> At the risk out sounding stupid why does it first have to be swapped
> out
> >>
> >>
> > ​I'll bet that you're envisioning all the pages being physically
> written
> > out to a local page dataset, then physically read back in. I don't
> think
> > this is what is really done. It is _logicallly_ swapped out. And then
> > _logically_ swapped back in. Then marked non-SWAPPABLE. During the
> swap in,
> > the data in physical memory frames may be copied to other, non-
> preferred,
> > memory frames. ​Why do it this way? Because it just leverages code that
> > already exists rather than using special purpose code. Less code to
> write
> > and maintain is a _good_ thing.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Windows. A funny name for a operating system that doesn't let you see
> > anything.
> >
> > Maranatha! <><
> > John McKown
> >
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